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Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":5,"text":"So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":6,"text":"who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":7,"text":"Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"Sennacherib’s Blasphemous Letter"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":8,"text":"When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":9,"text":"Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “He has set out to fight against you.”\nOn hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,","footnotes":[{"noteId":123,"offset":60,"text":"That is, the upper Nile region","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":10,"text":"“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah:\n‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":11,"text":"Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?","footnotes":[{"noteId":124,"offset":115,"text":"Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":12,"text":"Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":13,"text":"Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"Hezekiah’s Prayer"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":14,"text":"So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":15,"text":"And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":16,"text":"“O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":17,"text":"Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. 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